Author Archives: Nate

About Nate

I currently live south of Champaign, IL in an old farm house with my wife and 6 kids. I spend most of my free time keeping our house and barn in some sort of decent shape and programming for the fun of it. Of course with 6 kids there’s also a lot of diaper changing, teaching, playing, consoling, punishing, and other fun parental stuff.

Old Age

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Nate

Old age is the one disease you don’t look forward to being cured of.
— Citizen Cane

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“Nostalgia’s nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history…”

— Bobby Case in Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates – Tom Robbins

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Nate | 25 Comments

Life on Hold

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Nate

What do you say when your 7 year old asks you if life will ever move on when you have kids?
I was putting the kids to bed the other night and my 7 year old Noah said:
“Dad, do you feel like … Continue reading →

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There’s birth, there’s death, and in between there’s maintenance.
— Switters
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Nate | 4 Comments

Don’t count on playing God – He’s a lot sneakier than we suspected just a couple years ago.
– Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Nate | 24 Comments

Milford Track, New Zealand

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Nate

I saw this awesome looking trail in New Zealand.  While I doubt I’ll ever be able to make it to some place like this.  I think it would be the journey of a lifetime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Track
http://www.pilotguides.com/tv_shows/globe_trekker/shows/pacific/new_zealand2.php

 

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It’s a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It’s our syntax that’s limiting.”
— Switters in Fierce Invalids … Continue reading →

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Nate | 17 Comments

Finding comand line arguments in PHP script

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Nate

A good way to look for particular arguments passed on the command line to a PHP script.
The code below will grab the -f argument and stick it in the $filename variable.
<code>
$filename = ”;
for ( $c=0; $c<$argc; $c++) {
if ( $argv[$c] … Continue reading →

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Preventing Windows Update reboots

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Nate

How to keep from getting those annoying restart messages from windows update.
Type gpedit.msc at the run prompt you see at the bottom of your list when you click the start button.  This will bring up a new tool.
Navigate to “Computer … Continue reading →

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Mortgage Bailout: Who pays for it?

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Nate

So the government has signed into law a new bill to give “mortgage relief” to people who got into trouble with their loan. That sounds nice doesn’t it?
While people who hit hard times when the real estate market took a … Continue reading →

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